GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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I'm just having a hard time imagining a scenario in which it would be offensive...

Plenty where it would be a little confusing. Sandra Dude O'Connor, or Susan Bro Anthony would take some explaining, at the least.

I loved swordfish steak the one time I had it, so I'd bet that Scylla, Charybdis, or the Kraken would be quite good.

Oh, also The Kraken is quite tasty.

Sword fight? Fanning at each other, crossing and smacking swords. Maybe even walking around each other. I don't think that's how a real sword fight would look.

Akira fucking Kurosawa, on the other hand...

The Protagonist Throw!

Notably, the Terminator never lays a finger on Sarah Connor in the first Terminator movie, because Cameron knew that if the perfect killing machine got its hands on its target, it would just kill her immediately and that would be the end of the movie.

Or tossing an entire Zippo lighter into a pool of gasoline. Do you have any idea how much a good Zippo costs?!

In Robocop when Murphy gets shot to pieces and wheeled into the ER, Verhoeven got real ER doctors to play the scene, so their chatter is very realistic and very nonchalant as they work on a guy that they know full-well is a lost cause.

I think in Event Horizon they tell the guy about to get airlocked to take deep breaths and then let all the air out of his lungs... which I think is accurate if you want to live as long as possible in vacuum. But then he gets horribly disfigured by the decompression, so they might have only got some points for accuracy.

There was an analysis of Nolan and post-Nolan Batman that argued that once you strip away all the fantastic parts of Batman, all the Clayfaces and Mr. Freezes and Poison Ivies and the sentient robots and uncanny weirdness, all that is left is a bunch of problems that frankly the cops should be able to handle, and that Batman at that point is just a cop who is willing to violate people's Constitutional rights.

If Batman can be replaced by a well-outfitted SWAT team, then you're not writing Batman well enough. Give him some insane nonsense that cops are not equipped to handle.

Hell, in Star Trek VI, where the Praxis Effect originates, it's a horrifying industrial accident that blows up Praxis, so for all we know there might well have been some kind of moon-sized particle accelerator that blew up and did cause that ring shape. But it seems to show up in a lot of places where there's not as justifiable an excuse.

I was in a play once where we were going to fire a blank onstage, in a fairly small black box theatre. There were two options, a .22 and a .45 caliber blank. The .22 made a sharp CRACK that really shocked you. The .45 made a VWOOM sound that filled up the entire room and left you with the feeling of a wave of violent energy having just passed through your entire body.

We went with the .22.

Ahem

I love sitting neck-deep in an outdoor hot tub on a cold day!

It's a little more expensive, but not dramatically so

Buying boxes of full-sized candy isn't even that much more expensive than the fun-sized, and the psychological impact is immediate and dramatic. Every year I hear kids go "Woah, big candy bars!"

Better for what? I only listen to mp3s I've got stored on my phone; I use BlackPlayer for that, and I love it. For streaming music purposes... I dunno, I never got into that racket.

I definitely identified a range of classic movies from "Holy shit, I love this" to "I can appreciate this as Important Cinema but it's not for me."

In the first group I've got movies like Casablanca, The Philadelphia Story, and The Lion In Winter.

I recently watched La Dolce Vita, and that is very much in the second category. I can see how so many movie tropes came out of it but... it's just a little bit too much for me.

It's worth going back and checking out old movies because some of them are legitimately fun to watch, but it's also okay to just acknowledge a movie's contributions and move on.

If there are two parties, and one says it's raining, and the other says it isn't, it's not the news media's job to give an unbiased report on the debate, it's their job to look out the fucking window and say whether or not it's raining.

Count Junkula

Probably The Asylum.

Admittedly, The Asylum has a quite a few rooms within it, but I'd say that the antechamber of The Asylum that abuts the outer wall to Outside comprises the majority of the surface of the Earth and its atmosphere, so that's a pretty big room.

Did you see what he did to Dr. Dugong?!